Malware.Trace infection

dorkpixie said:

Microsoft Security Essentials: did not find the infection
MBam: did not find the infection
AdAware: did not find the infection
Norton 360: did not find the infection

This is rather interesting as i had exactly the same registry key infected on my desktop a couple of weeks ago but the infection was called "TASKMAN"

As with yourself it was detected by SAS but went undetected by Avast & Mbam

Borg 386 said:

Nope...once it's in quarantine, it's been removed from the system use and placed in a safe folder.

Now, if you delete that from quarantine and it shows up again, that's an indication that there is something in the system & it keeps getting put back in.

I will look into that too. Thank you!!

Borg 386 said:

dorkpixie, if you use Firefox, there are various plug ins that disallow cookies such as cookiesafe. Or set it to allow cookies for the session only

If you use IE, you can set it to allow cookies only for the session and disallow 3rd party cookies.

Also, you can set both to delete all cookies upon exit

Yes, I use these. The cookies was not my concern. They are always the same cookies and I usually have very few. It's the Malware I was most concerned with and thank you for the ideas and help.

EzioAuditore said:

Borg 386 said:

Well, it looks that way. Like I said, keep an eye on your system. Malware nowadays is pretty tricky and even after apparent removal it's sometimes sitting in the background, it just changed it's spots. Glad I could help, but keep doing regular scans which is a good practice.

This and also keep an eye on your start-up items.SysInternals Autoruns is a great program for it.
Autoruns for Windows

I make a link for the program. Thank you very much!!

mitchell64 said:

Borg 386 said:

Nope...once it's in quarantine, it's been removed from the system use and placed in a safe folder.

Now, if you delete that from quarantine and it shows up again, that's an indication that there is something in the system & it keeps getting put back in.

As Borg 386 said so long as it is in quarantine it is safe. But it would pay to create a new System Restore point or Image in case it is needed as restore points prior to quarantine may be infected.

If those restore points are infected the infection is contained within the restore point as if it were in quarantine so long as you don't restore to that point.

It would pay to keep them at the moment until you are sure your OS is stable as it is better to have an infected restore point you can revert to than none at all.

EDIT: I was reading one of your other threads, you may find this of interest for future security;

https://www.sevenforums.com/security-...b-devices.html

Hope it is of some help, something that is often overlooked

Thank you for this; I never auto run anything for obvious reasons.